Dr Anthony Pane continues to make lasting contributions to vision care, recently publishing an updated edition of his textbook The Neuro-Ophthalmology Survival Guide.
Now in its third edition, the textbook was first published in 2007 and has featured on bookshelves of trainee and practising eye professionals around the world ever since.
Dr Pane says the book filled a big gap in vision care training at the time.
“When I started my advanced training 20 years ago, I realised there were plenty of textbooks for doctors once they’d diagnosed a disease of the optic nerve or brain that affected vision, but no books about to how to make the diagnosis in the first place,” Dr Payne says.
“For example, if a new patient came in complaining of blurred vision, doctors need to know how determine they could have a brain tumour as the cause of their symptoms, not just an eye disease,” he says.
Dr Payne collaborated with two international colleagues from his field, Professor Neil Miller of Johns Hopkins University in the USA and Dr Michael Burdon of Birmingham Eye Centre in the UK, to develop the concept and write the text.
The Neuro-Ophthalmology Survival Guide is a practical, symptom-based, ‘how-to’ guide for all trainee and practising ophthalmologists, optometrists, and physicians whose practice includes patients with eye or brain issues.
Each chapter focusses on a specific clinical symptom and includes an introduction to the clinical assessment of a symptom; an examination checklist; a management flowchart to be followed; clinical diagnostic criteria checklists; and further information on the diseases that can cause the symptom with a brief discussion of appropriate management. The latest edition is also available as an e-book which includes online video links.
“Because medical knowledge keeps evolving, we’ve kept updating the book,” Dr Payne says.
“We hope it will continue to save sight and lives around the world for many years to come.”
For more details or to purchase a copy of the textbook, visit the publisher’s website at ElsevierHealth.
